With sufficient funds in your superannuation, you can retire any time that you like, but if you need to rely on a pension you must now hold out until you're 66.

This group of people are more likely to be unemployed and must be signed up with a job agency.

Almost half a million people in this position over the next four years will be forced to comply with job net agencies who are funded by the taxpayer to keep them from the old age pension for no visible or apparent other reason than to receive the money that these people would have received if they had retired at 65?

Goodbye Scott.

PENELOPE Arthur's article piece in (The Examiner, April 11) was one filled with bias and misconception in regards to a string of vegan protests.

As someone who identifies as vegan, but once ate animal products, I am here to offer a middle ground.

Most vegans don't hate farmers, rather the industry and the abuse of animals on these farms.

A misconception is that animals live in paradise, something far from the truth.

Even on good farms animals are still abused, especially in the case of dairy farms where calves are taken from mothers who are milked daily on steel machinery, or even that of egg farms where chickens are kept in cages.

What Penelope Arthur also forgets to touch base on is that there are many health benefits of a vegan diet, such as a longer life and reduced risk of cancer, heart attacks and strokes (according to multiple studies by Oxford and Harvard universities).

The banners held by the protesters in the image read: "We Will Rise Together".

It is a reference to the 2018 film Dominion containing real industry footage shot in Australia on good and bad farms.

As for the protests themselves, we rejected protests of, at times, a similar nature in the early 1900s when women wanted the right to vote.

Whatever your stance on veganism, having such an anti-vegan views helps no one and it is not wrong.

Whilst it is a personal choice to choose what you eat, the tides are changing.

JULIAN Assange has had his asylum and Ecuadorian citizenship withdrawn by newly-elected and pro-US Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno.

Assange was consequently arrested by British police on not only a breach of bail conditions, but also in relation to a US extradition request.

It will be interesting to discover the benefits afforded to Ecuador by the US for Ecuador's compliance and acquiescence, and the Australian government's support of an Australian citizen subject to a questionable US extradition request, presumably a supine retort by either a future Liberal or Labor government lacking any form of independent dignity acting on behalf of its fellow citizens.

AS we have established, 38 per cent of the Meander Valley is currently located within the TWWHA (Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area).

A staggering 1258 square kilometres.

Insufficient resources are being invested to currently achieve successful management, and land owners are stifled from managing the land and prevent these damaging fires that we have recently seen.

Many of the areas traditionally burnt and grazed by cattlemen have now become overgrown, invaded by undesirable species, and are now a detonator for wildfire.

Our current situation sees us with burns being hindered by government legislation.

The result in the highlands is the original mixed species grasslands have now been overtaken by kerosene bush.

No one disputes the beauty and magnificence of the environment that we have.

But to limit the management to the point where we end up with many years' worth of fire fuel, and allowing it to burn unchecked in catastrophic summer conditions, is ridiculous.

It is also creating a monoculture situation in the bushland with many of our forests in the same stage of not having been burned.

This is decreasing the diversity of both flora and fauna.

Many of our native species actually need fire to propagate, but an out of control, destructive summer fire is not the best way to achieve this.

With a well-timed cool burn, birds survive easily, fauna can escape, and microfauna can survive in the untouched damp areas.

The result is a reduction in the fuel load so that a summer fire can be much more easily fought, and is less likely to take hold and cause the destruction of a summer wildfire.

I reiterate that no management is bad management.